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Title: White Dwarf vs Def-Con 4?
Post by: Omega on September 12, 2014, 01:08:52 AM

I was looking over the covers of old White Dwarf magazines and spotted something that looked rather familliar.

Issue 17 ha this cover.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9vFKx_7wY74/T70wknTgo6I/AAAAAAAACn4/sZ7NIyYWXSw/s400/wd17.jpg)

And the movie Def-Con 4 has this.

(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMDqV0JLACJI9zwUSglPy5wr_oBrBSu6P-LJvzSWPTXHhogFqF)

The spaceship is in a simmilar position. But most striking is that the astronaut skeleton is pretty much the same with obvious alterations.

WD:17 came out in 1980. Def-Con 4 in 1984.

Same artist? Copy? I could not find a name for either.

Title: White Dwarf vs Def-Con 4?
Post by: dragoner on September 12, 2014, 01:48:31 AM

The artist is Angus McKie, here is more about that in a blog - http://sayhellospaceman.blogspot.com/2012/06/unknown-2-2012.html

I First saw it in Spacewreck, the Terran Trade Authority Handbook.

Title: White Dwarf vs Def-Con 4?
Post by: JeremyR on September 15, 2014, 11:17:43 PM

That Terran Trade Authority stuff was awesome, and got around a lot.

Baen used some of them for covers of their books back then.

Title: White Dwarf vs Def-Con 4?
Post by: dragoner on September 16, 2014, 01:53:54 AM

I have used it in sci-fi games, it is great stuff.

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